Exclusive: women, children among Mass Torture Photos

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Exclusive photos of mass torture
obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showing, for the first time, women and childrenamong 11,000 victims who were tortured to
death in Syrian security chambers between (2011-2013) according to an
International Report published January 2014.

The atrocious photos of mass torture by Syrian
security had been taken in a well-known military hospital in Mezzah
neighborhood of Damascus.

Hospital 601 was the photographing scene of
Bashar al-Assad’s war crimes where the leaked photos showed hundreds of
lifeless bodies with signs of starvation, brutal beatings, strangulation and
other forms of torture and killing.

The Syrian
Network for Human Rights, in
report issued last September, said at least 215,000 people were arrested
by Syrian security since the revolution erupted in March 2011. (4,500
of
them are women and 9,000 are less than 18).

According to the report, 2630 detainees were tortured to death, and 70,000 cases documented as enforced disappearance.

Photos illustrate apparent actions of serious
international crimes committed in the chambers of security services against
11,000 detainees, according to human rights advocates.

Zaman al-Wasl deliberately insists to show
victims' faces, so their families and relatives can recognize them.

“Crime of The Century’ photos are linked to war
crime report made last year by a team of internationally recognized war crimes
prosecutors and forensic experts.

In mid 2013, a team of war crimes prosecutors and
forensic experts, had analyzed 55 thousand digital photos taken and provided by
a Syrian defector codenamed "Caesar," who, along with his family, is
now living outside Syria in an undisclosed location, according to CNN.

The team members shared their findings in a joint
exclusive with CNN's "Amanpour" and The Guardian newspaper on January
20 2014.

Sir Desmond de Silva, the former chief prosecutor
of Sierra Leone special court, in interview with CNN, likened the images to
those of Holocaust survivors and Nazi death camps after World War II."

Syria is not a member of the International
Criminal Court. The only way the court could prosecute someone from Syria would
be through a referral from the United Nations Security Council.

More than 220,000 people have been killed in
Syria since the revolt against Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011, the United
Nations says.